SANTO DOMINGO, D.R. – Ulrick Gaillard, CEO of the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is scheduled to travel to the Republic of Haiti on February 12th to meet with the country’s Minister of Health, Dr. Alex Larsen and elected and health officials from the Southeast Department to discuss his organization’s long-term plans, within Haiti’s national recovery/reconstruction objectives, to discuss long-term health needs of populations living in Haiti’s border region.

One day before the earthquake, Gaillard signed in Port-au-Prince an important partnership agreement with Dr. Larsen handing over full control of the Southeast’s only Medical Center to BRA to operate and manage. “Once fully renovated and equipped, the facility, located in Anse-a-Pitres, will have the capacity to deliver complete health services and medicines to 200,000 people from other surrounding communes, including Grand Gosier, Belle Anse and Thiotte,” said Gaillard. He added that BRA’s long-term plan will include water and sanitations and education to prevent diseases.

Since the earthquake, thousands of desperate Haitians travelled to the border into Anse-a-Pitres, seeking the most basic necessities to survive. We fear that the population growth in this tiny community, already overpopulated and plagued by extreme poverty, will result in an increased and desperate need for food, medicines and medical care—a demand that BRA is willing to meet collaboratively with Haiti’s Ministry of Health.

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NEW YORK. – Amid destruction, resulting from a 7.0-magnitude powerful earthquake that hard hit Haiti on January 12th, the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) is already putting in place a collaborative relief effort to address immediate needs of the country’s population. Click HERE for more details.

Help for Haiti
BRA’s CEO, Ulrick Gaillard said that his organization’s short-term objective is to relieve immediate sufferings in the surrounding Port-au-Prince and SouthEast Department areas, including Jacmel. Their long-term plan, however, is to repair basic services, deliver sustainable healthcare and clean water, and provide training and economic opportunities to women.

BRA’s existing capacity in the region includes two fully functional medical centers in Southeast border of Haiti and in neighboring Dominican Republic’s batey, trained emergency response staff (medical, water, nutrition), availability of emergency supplies and food, agriculture staff for replanting and recovery efforts, water/sanitation experience, including well projects for border and batey populations, and duty free privileges with government for humanitarian deliveries into Haiti. “Our immediate focus is to work with the Haitian Diaspora and our strategic partners to channel support to where it is most needed and deliver emergency supplies,” added Gaillard.

But Gaillard cautioned that individual donations of in-kind goods to ship into Haiti, while they are important, are not the best approach at this time with almost all Haiti’s airports, ports and government offices shut down. BRA will use its DR headquarters to receive and purchase goods and transport them into Haiti by crossing the border.

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BRA’s immediate need is to raise the most funds as possible. The organization encourages everyone from any part of the globe to visit its website at www.bateyrelief.org, click on DONATE NOW, and make a gift. For those who wish to mail in their checks, to make them payable to Batey Relief Alliance, P.O. Box 300565, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11230.

BRA’s CEO narrowly escaped tragedy
Gaillard traveled the week before the earthquake to Haiti for a post award meeting with USAID and to sign an agreement with Haiti’s Ministry of Health to operate a medical center at the border region (click HERE). “I left Port-au-Prince just one day before the earthquake. Had I posted my return, I would have probably not made it. But my heart breaks tremendously for the thousands who perished,” concluded Gaillard.

Contact BRA at bra@bateyrelief.org or (917) 627-5026.

The situation:
HAITI was hard hit by a 7.0 earthquake, 10 miles from the capital, Port-au-Prince where close to half of its 9-million population lives. In the capital, it is reported that thousands of buildings and shacks have been destroyed; bodies laid on the streets; and panic all over the place. For more details click HERE.

Batey Relief Alliance’s reponse:
• Relieve immediate suffering (delivering food, medical care, clean water, and emergency supplies)
• Repair basic services to levels that are better than they were before
• Provide economic support to women

Immediate Need:
• Funds to purchase goods, shipment and distribution

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